Professional Update
A
monthly newsletter for KZN Attorneys from the Kwazulu-Natal Law Society

17 July 2009

This professional service draws attention to current and important items of news
 and members are directed to the hosts' websites

     

InfoUpdate
15 of 2009

News
Women's Workshop and Luncheon. KZN Law Society and Pietermaritzburg Attorneys' Association
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Government Gazette Update
May 2009
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Recent Judgments
Competition Commission, Tribunal and Appeal Court - telecoms costs up for discussion ; construction tenders under examination ; Xstrata / Anglo American negotiations continue
Constitutional Court
- recognition of Muslim marriages ; minimum sentencing laws for 16- and -17 year olds

Supreme Court of Appeal

Commercial Crimes Courts
- sms banking scam
Electoral Courts

Equality Courts
Eastern Cape High Court : Port Elizabeth

KwaZulu-Natal High Court : Durban
- freedom of testation
KwaZulu-Natal High Court : Pietermaritzburg
- Education Department opposes sign language at schools ; Pmb magistrate loses case
North Gauteng High Court
- rights of surrogate parents ; Financial Services Board takes action
Northern Cape High Court

South Gauteng High Court

Western Cape High Court

Magistrates Courts
- false rape charges ; Motata case draws to a close ; insurance won't pay in faked death case
Regional courts -
case against Jabulani Mabaso and Pamela Zulu proceeds ; 'blue light' shooting

South Africa. Government Information
Speeches
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Legislation
Companies Act ; Constitution ; Constitution Seventeenth Amendment Bill of 2009 ; Consumer Protection Act
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Legal Profession
Legal Practice Bill under discussion once again ; effects of the recession ;
women solicitors earn 29% less than their male colleagues in the UK
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South Africa
Special Investigations Unit 'fired' by Correctional Services Department which also suspends two senior officials ; special courts for 2010 crime victims ; syndicates strip Western Cape of indigenous flora and fauna ; human trafficking in advance of 2010 ; more bullying at schools ; appointments to the Judicial Service Commission which has started interviewing candidates for the SCA ; International Conference on Affirmative Action ; labour action affecting the petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical and paper industries as well as the construction, mining industries and the SABC ; Hout Bay is the scene of violent protests in advance of a property auction ; Land Bank under threat ; Graham Boustred makes headlines ; comments on the nationalisation of mines ; Durban's public transport problems continue ; the Hawks-formerly-known-as-the-Scorpions continue to make news ; MTN's competition to mark 15 years of business goes awry
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Africa
Using traditional institutions in modern Africa ; Namibian seal hunt goes ahead and two journalists are clubbed ; former Rwandan governor gets life in prison ; Charles Taylor testifies in his trial for war crimes ; Sudanese women lashed for wearing trousers ; Zimbabwe reviews foreign investment laws
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Asia
Khmer Rouge trial ; China hands down death sentence for accepting bribes ; Mumbai gunman pleads guilty
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Europe
EU asylum seekers to be treated equally by all member countries ; 49 members of Mafia syndicate jailed in Italy ; teenager involved in pregnancy claim after swimming in pool
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Middle East
Saddam Hussein's last interviews made available ; court action against a 'genie' in Saudi Arabia
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United Kingdom
Conviction for inciting racial hatred via a foreign website ; legal aid cuts ; dumping of toxic waste in foreign countries ; possible changes to immigration law ; end of retirement age ; Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill covers sexually offensive emails or texts
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United States and South America
US judge gives SA apartheid victims the green light to sue multinational corporations ; CIA programme to be investigated ; Guantanamo Bay hearings resume
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International
King III ; how old is too old to become a mother?
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Miscellaneous E-Things
What teenagers really think ; Twitter activity
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